‘JavaScript for Automation’ is a new feature in the forthcoming OS X Yosemite and makes JavaScript a first class language for writing automation scripts (as you’d usually use AppleScript for). There’s some documentation too.

Brian Holt, front-end developer at Reddit, builds a web app and discusses the strengths of each of the four popular JavaScript frameworks: Ember, Angular, Backbone and React to help you understand which one is best suited to you and your next big project.

The popular programming Q+A site now allows users to mark up runnable JavaScript code snippets, so linking out to something like JSFiddle for a live demo is no longer needed. This question provides an example of the feature in action.

With over 1600 registered for 2014’s event, O’Reilly Fluent is a huge event on the JavaScript and Web Platform calendar, and if you want to speak at the 2015 event in San Francisco, you need to get your proposal in by October 27th. See you there!

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